Page fiel deletion? Mandrake

Ok well when setting up mandrake in a stupid move(it was after 4 am) I told it to delete the page file every shutdown. I relieze now this was stupid because I only use like maybe 6 programs uselly any way so them being saved would help me. So I was wondering how do I tell it to not delete the page file? Incase you needed to know Yes I am a first time linux user and finding my computer is a hard task for me haha.

Page file? I haven't used mandrake in a while, but I thought it used a seperate partition for swap space. Where did you tell it to do this? I assume there is some sort of "control center," have you looked for the setting there?

edit: if you have a decent amount of ram, linux will hardly ever swap anthing out.

Mandrake uses a swap partition only if you set one up; otherwise it will create a swap file. There should be an option in the Mandrake Control Center somewhere. Linux also hardly ever swaps anything (as said above). I have 4KB of my swap partition used, and not all of my RAM used.

Oh ok, maybe it was from being tired but it semes I am getting windows and linux mixed up.

tenchi86 said:

Oh ok, maybe it was from being tired but it semes I am getting windows and linux mixed up.

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Get some sleep and walk away from your pc. There is no page file in Linux or an option to delete it, it is a partition on your HD in in linux.

jajmon said:

Get some sleep and walk away from your pc. There is no page file in Linux or an option to delete it, it is a partition on your HD in in linux.

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Linux can be setup to use swap files. It is not really used, but there is the option. It usually has lower performance than a partition though.